Roger Lovette writes about cultural concerns, healthy faith and matters of the heart.

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Politics and More--Winning and Losing

photo by mandarin77 / flicklr

Losing is no fun. Ask all the candidates in this off-year
election that worked hard, spent too much money and still found themselves
defeated. Mostly Democrats. But whether you are red or blue or striped or a
thousand shades of grey losing is no fun.

But you don’t die from losing you just wish you could. We’ve
all lost a whole lot. Not just some political race but more. We’ve lost health,
status, money, friends, and people we loved greatly. Most of us have some place
like the wistful song: “O give me a home where the buffalo roam...” In the
college town where I live losing is not supposed to happen to our team. But it
does. And what happens if the scoreboard turns in favor of our cursed
opponents. Sometimes we feel like we are nobody, that we don’t count and that
the sky is cloudy all day long. People who have never seen the inside of a
college don the home teams colors and finery. Buy expensive tickets, tailgate
like crazy and scream until their voices are hardly a whisper. And if the team
loses they walk away as if somebody or something special has died. We put too
much money and effort and commitment into something that is far from perfect.
And if too much is lost we politely fire the coach and look everywhere for
somebody that will win, win, win.

I hate to mention politics but I will anyway. As I have seen
John McCain muttering and castigating the President daily I wonder if any of
his opinions are shaped by the fact that he lost to our President. Poor losers
are no fun to be around. I think the same thing—only more so—about Sarah Palin
who is still smirking and sarcastically dissing the President. Some
people--columnists and pundits have made a cottage industry—not to speak of
zillions of dollars they have made—have never gotten over the hard fact that they
lost the election to a black President twice.

But I need to be fair. Mr. McConnell has now made it to
Senate Majority Leader. I do remember the first days Mr. Obama was in office that
Mr. McConnell said his number one goal was to make sure that this new President
failed. He has certainly done his part. I couldn’t get over an elected official of national stature
saying this. I kept thinking if the President fails—don’t we all fail? Hmmm.

But now Mr. McConnell is on center stage—not as President
but in a powerful political position. Should Mr. Obama have as his stated
purpose to make sure that Mr. McConnell fails? Republicans will cry unfair.
Democrats will lick their chops. Wouldn’t it be healthier to at least try to
work with this man for the good of the country? I’m not talking about giving up
principles—but I am talking about working together to get our country off the
skids.

Some of us lost this past Tuesday in the election. Some of
us won. Now what? Shall we rub the losers noses in their defeats—shall the
losers spit and claw at the winners. We are in a hard time. We have big fish to
fry. Jobs maybe first. Dealing with the unending war in the Middle East which
has been going on for centuries really. But we all need to be for something not
agin' something.

Maybe I’ve rambled too long. But I do remember the wonderful
story of Mother Teresa. Some columnist went to India and watched her work.
Picking up little starving and dead babies. Hugging, carrying them to the
hospital—reaching out to what seemed like endless disease and poverty. The
reporter asked Mother Theresa didn’t she get discouraged. Wasn’t what she did a
hopeless task? Why didn’t she do something where she could see some results?
She turned and looked at him and said, “Young man I do what I can, where I am,
with what I have.”

Losers or winners—not bad advice for a country
desperately in need of people who will continue the hard work of making the USA
live up to its dreams and Constitution.

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Minister-writer who cares about the world and all God's children. I've Pastored six churches--served as Interim Pastor for seven other churches since my supposed retirement.I have written five books and a multitude of articles.